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“The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.”

Humans Self Loses Knowledge Worst Conditions Behavior Self Knowledge

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.”

Knows Doe Change Loses Loss Knowledge Draws Concepts Relation Conception Finality

Book:Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

Inspirational Long Loses Common Knowledge Technology Information Intellectual Common Sense Too Much Information Information Society Data Collection Common Decency Gathering Data Information Sharing Gathering Information

Author:Gertrude Stein

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”

Thinking Knows Men Doe Time Loses Knowledge Learning Modern Gains Time Management Wasting Time Modernism Modern Man Art Of Loving Time To Kill

Book:The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition

Source: The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition

“In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.”

Needs Order Loses Knowledge Intelligence Intellect Acquire

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.”

Ifs Knows Art Said War Winning Loses Enemy Knowledge Battle Hundred Army Planning Know Yourself Art Of War

Author:Sun Tzu

“The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.”

Ifs Knows Want Science Causes Loses Knowledge Selfishness Remedy Scarcity Disgraceful

Author:Pliny the Elder